python regression tests - a monster hammer to keep wine "in check" :)

[Jeff Zaroyko]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I am about to go back to fix a bug with ghostscript's ijs interface when compiled with non-MSVC: IJS is a binary protocol (for communicating with non-postscript printer drivers), but if you don't explicitly declare "wb" and "rb", and precise behavior - whether to do \n to \r\n translation - is dependent on both compilers (mingw, msvc, borland) and C runtime (wine or native windows). So if you want it to work correctly, you explicitly declare everything.
>

Mingw,  msvcrt and from the looks of it Borland also, export a global
variable named _fmode, which can be tested (or modified) to see what
the default mode is, not sure how far this dates back or what the
consistency is.  The default does seem to be translated mode though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee2849wt(VS.80).aspx

-Jeff